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Literary Elite: Chinese Immigration

Immigration To Canada Dept: Gold Mountain Blues , written by Toronto resident Zhang Ling, has gathered major awards in China and is being translated into English for publication in Canada and Britain, according to The Star. But the latest novel, a multi-generational saga of Chinese immigration to Canada, has come under withering assault from various web-based attackers, who claim that Zhang has appropriated some of the ideas, plots, characters and details of a number of Canadian Chinese writers and bEIJING Penguin Canada has put one of its planned 2011 blockbusters in limbo until it is satisfied that the author hasn t been poaching from the works of Canada s Chinese Canadian literary elite. Her last book, Aftershock , was turned into a 2010 movie that became the biggest box-office hit in Chinese history, taking in more than $100 million. As reported in the news.
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